A Paris court is due tomorrow to deliver its verdict on a libel and breach of privacy action by Max Mosley against the News of the World.
He is seeking damages against the now-defunct newspaper, its publisher and its former reporter Neville Thurlbeck.
He was able to launch the case in France, which has strict privacy laws, because 3,000 copies of the News of the World were available for sale in the country when it published a scandalous story about him in March 2008.
As The Independent's Ian Burrell notes, we face the prospect of "a newspaper which no longer exists being responsible for damages in a country where it was not printed and where they speak a different language to the one in which the article complained of was published."
In anticipating that Mosley will succeed, he argues that the former Formula 1 chief "has the whip hand over his former tabloid tormentors".
Sources: AFP/The Independent/YouTube/Reuters
